Fernando Pessoa

"Politics is the art of postponing decisions."

"The only real failure is the refusal to try."

"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."

"Every person contains a library of all they have experienced."

"The moment I understand something, I no longer need it."

"I am a stranger in this world, watching it go by with curiosity and sadness."

"Everything is worth nothing to me except what cannot be kept."

"The worst prison is to be a prisoner of hope."

"I feel, therefore I am, but I don't know what I am."

"To be great, one must first understand smallness."

"Art is the recreation of things as they might be."

"My heart is a broken instrument."

"I carry all of humanity within me, and I understand nothing."

"The world is a theater, and we are merely players in someone else's dream."

"Truth sleeps in the depths where few dare to look."

"I envy only those who do not envy me."

"Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."

"Every person contains multitudes; I simply gave mine names."

"Time passes, but nothing passes away completely."

"To love is to lose oneself in another."

"Beauty is the terrible, the incomprehensible, the absurd."

"I think, therefore I am confused."

"Wisdom lies in knowing how little we truly know."

"The sea is truth, and life is merely its shore."

"Success is impossible without first admitting defeat."

"Dreams are the only reality we can trust."

"I am tired of being just one person."

"Courage is moving forward when you don't understand where you're going."

"Change is the only constant, yet we resist it most fiercely."

"Money is the blood of society, and we bleed ourselves dry."